Job 3:5

Let darkness, and the shadow of death cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

In Context

4Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.

6Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:11And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.

Job 10:22A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.

Job 24:17If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.

Job 34:22There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity.

Psalms 23:4For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.

Psalms 107:10Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.

Matthew Henry on Job 3:2-11

Job Curses His Day. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto… Read the whole commentary →

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